Jason Beach, Ph.D.

The incorporation of visual stimuli in your lessons will increase your effectiveness as a teacher. An example of this would be taking a picture of a pie. Then dividing the pie into six different pieces and taking a picture of each piece. Using this visual representation will help students understand abstract concepts like fractions. In iPhoto, we will look at using photography in the classroom.

Ideas for using iPhoto in the classroom

Using Photos as a seating chart

Use pictures to make a virtual tour

Make stickers

Create a Student of the week

Take pictures of various staff members

Use pictures to make a map of the school (K)

Take pictures of local officials

Create a slide show for open house

Take a picture and have students write about it

Take a photo of each letter of the alphabet (K)

Create a bitmap of a famous place and have students import themselves on the image so they look like they are there

Photo classroom procedures

Make a weekly newsletter

Add photos to your web site

Use iPhoto to make a book

Take photos of your students and make a calendar

Make post cards of your students

Many more...

While we use iPhoto in the classroom, there are several other photo editors that do a great job in managing, editing, and creating slide shows. For users that do not have access to iPhoto, you can download Google's Picasa. It's as effective and in some cases better than iPhoto in managing your photo library. Below I have posted a short video that will walk you through the process of creating a slide show in Picasa. In class we will use iPhoto to create a slide show.

1.) Find and address a state standard2.) On your title page include the standard you are addressing3.) Download 10-12 photos that help teach the standard4.) Include captions on each photo5.) Export your slide show and submit it to the dropbox in the content management system.